This is more than just bad reporting. This is treason. McCarthy should be put on trial for treason and lose his job as Speaker. Carlson should go to jail if he reports this as anything but what it really was, a Coup. I'm sick and tired of these Right Wing crazy nut bags making up lies and feeding them to the public. It's plain wrong. It's not freedom of speech. It's lying and they need to be stopped before it's too late and we have another attempted Coup because these fools rile up their base.
Mike Dewine, the governor of Ohio, needs to call out Trump for the lies he told during his visit on 2/22/23 to the people of East Palestine. If the governor has any decency he should make it public that Trump has been disingenuous.
If Professor Reich didn't stitch it all together neatly with that second to last paragraph, no one ever will:
"The McCarthy-Trump-Fox-complex is internally consistent — connecting authoritarianism, rightwing Republican hackery, GOP political fundraising, Trump-boosting ratings outrage, and greed. It’s a vicious cycle designed to sow anger and distrust while advancing the power and wealth of McCarthy, Greene, Trump, Carlson, and Fox News."
This should go up on billboards all over the country. These lowlife idiots are destroying this nation!
This continuing Fascist coup was predictable years ago when SCOTUS shifted the balance of power away from the People and to the super rich and powerful, and their corporations, with rulings such as Citizens United. HJR48 will shift the power balance back towards We the People, and democracy. But our Constitution will not amend itself. Help out at movetoamend.org and grow the democracy movement now, before it’s too late!
There is no 2d coup attempt, for the simple reason that the first coup never ended. Trump and the MAGA Party -- there is no GOP any longer -- are now playing out the second act of the coup, leading to 2024/the third act. Only on Jan 20, 2025, will we know how this story ends.
How is it even legal for McCarthy to turn the tapes over to anyone? It seems it would be a matter of national security and be locked down. If someone like TC can have them whats to stop any other nutter that requested them to get them? A precedence has been set. Will he sell them to Putin? Just when you think things couldn’t possibly get worse...
Remember, though, that all of this is built on the MAGA voter base. The 15 rounds of voting for Speaker showed us just how weak McCarthy and the Republican party are, and how they have to pander to the crazies. What the Dominion court case ultimately revealed by releasing the Fox News emails is that those same belligerently ignorant, conspiracy-addled voters call the tunes the Fox News piper plays. The Republican party and Fox have spent decades cultivating the deplorables, and now they are captive to them. Fox News is deathly afraid of being abandoned by its crazy viewers. The Republican leadership is deathly afraid of Trump and his deplorable mob. The deplorables demand to be fed all manner of stupid lies, and will turn to whichever politicians and media outlets that meet their demands.
Hopefully Jack Smith and DOJ take the same point of view as your article expoused that the radical insurrectionists are still in an ongoing struggle to further Muddy the waters 💧 of their J6 complicity by further engaging in seditious activities with the help of their favorite propaganda network and spokesman. As long as we have writers like you and Heather and others holding the insurrectionists feet to the fire 🔥, America 🇺🇸 has a better chance of knowing how the GOP is trying to fake it til they make it! All of America 🇺🇸 just have to make sure they don't, especially in 2024.
It's been noted, I think on MSNBC, that the tapes will show where surveillance cameras are located. This will make it easier for seditionists to invade the Capitol in the future.
Europe was elated by the president's speeches and appearence in Kiev and Poland. But now I feel ashamed by this history: lousy politics of village level to bring a moron like Trump to a new candidacy for president. It lowers the perceived level of your politics very much. I used to think that the U.S. must elect the president they like, whether a fragile old democrat, or a narcissist moron.
But the problem in the word has grown. We need a strong America. A second term of Trump would be a disaster for the world and a break up for the U.S.
It’s not a “second” coup. It is the same coup - slow-rolling but never stopping, like a mudslide gaining speed as it moves down the hill. The only way to divert it is to shut down the right wing media and that won’t happen.
Remember Leiningen Versus the Ants? Is that still required reading in high school? The short story by Carl Stephenson? If we survive these vicious, amoral and immoral, poisonous, fascist, right-wing red ants we will be eaten to the bone after having fallen through a ring of fire.
Slight correction; Carlson's goal is ONLY to make lot of money for himself; I doubt he cares how. He'd do the same for Stalin or Hitler if it made him money.
This is more than just bad reporting. This is treason. McCarthy should be put on trial for treason and lose his job as Speaker. Carlson should go to jail if he reports this as anything but what it really was, a Coup. I'm sick and tired of these Right Wing crazy nut bags making up lies and feeding them to the public. It's plain wrong. It's not freedom of speech. It's lying and they need to be stopped before it's too late and we have another attempted Coup because these fools rile up their base.
Ohio Train Derailment
Mike Dewine, the governor of Ohio, needs to call out Trump for the lies he told during his visit on 2/22/23 to the people of East Palestine. If the governor has any decency he should make it public that Trump has been disingenuous.
If Professor Reich didn't stitch it all together neatly with that second to last paragraph, no one ever will:
"The McCarthy-Trump-Fox-complex is internally consistent — connecting authoritarianism, rightwing Republican hackery, GOP political fundraising, Trump-boosting ratings outrage, and greed. It’s a vicious cycle designed to sow anger and distrust while advancing the power and wealth of McCarthy, Greene, Trump, Carlson, and Fox News."
This should go up on billboards all over the country. These lowlife idiots are destroying this nation!
This is exactly why we need indictments, convictions and significant jail terms. Without consequences they have no incentive to stop.
This continuing Fascist coup was predictable years ago when SCOTUS shifted the balance of power away from the People and to the super rich and powerful, and their corporations, with rulings such as Citizens United. HJR48 will shift the power balance back towards We the People, and democracy. But our Constitution will not amend itself. Help out at movetoamend.org and grow the democracy movement now, before it’s too late!
There is no 2d coup attempt, for the simple reason that the first coup never ended. Trump and the MAGA Party -- there is no GOP any longer -- are now playing out the second act of the coup, leading to 2024/the third act. Only on Jan 20, 2025, will we know how this story ends.
How is it even legal for McCarthy to turn the tapes over to anyone? It seems it would be a matter of national security and be locked down. If someone like TC can have them whats to stop any other nutter that requested them to get them? A precedence has been set. Will he sell them to Putin? Just when you think things couldn’t possibly get worse...
This is what happens when the inmates run the asylum.
Remember, though, that all of this is built on the MAGA voter base. The 15 rounds of voting for Speaker showed us just how weak McCarthy and the Republican party are, and how they have to pander to the crazies. What the Dominion court case ultimately revealed by releasing the Fox News emails is that those same belligerently ignorant, conspiracy-addled voters call the tunes the Fox News piper plays. The Republican party and Fox have spent decades cultivating the deplorables, and now they are captive to them. Fox News is deathly afraid of being abandoned by its crazy viewers. The Republican leadership is deathly afraid of Trump and his deplorable mob. The deplorables demand to be fed all manner of stupid lies, and will turn to whichever politicians and media outlets that meet their demands.
Hopefully Jack Smith and DOJ take the same point of view as your article expoused that the radical insurrectionists are still in an ongoing struggle to further Muddy the waters 💧 of their J6 complicity by further engaging in seditious activities with the help of their favorite propaganda network and spokesman. As long as we have writers like you and Heather and others holding the insurrectionists feet to the fire 🔥, America 🇺🇸 has a better chance of knowing how the GOP is trying to fake it til they make it! All of America 🇺🇸 just have to make sure they don't, especially in 2024.
How many McCarthy's does the American history need?!
It's been noted, I think on MSNBC, that the tapes will show where surveillance cameras are located. This will make it easier for seditionists to invade the Capitol in the future.
Europe was elated by the president's speeches and appearence in Kiev and Poland. But now I feel ashamed by this history: lousy politics of village level to bring a moron like Trump to a new candidacy for president. It lowers the perceived level of your politics very much. I used to think that the U.S. must elect the president they like, whether a fragile old democrat, or a narcissist moron.
But the problem in the word has grown. We need a strong America. A second term of Trump would be a disaster for the world and a break up for the U.S.
Our Congress looks more and more like the WWE ! What a disgrace
It’s not a “second” coup. It is the same coup - slow-rolling but never stopping, like a mudslide gaining speed as it moves down the hill. The only way to divert it is to shut down the right wing media and that won’t happen.
Remember Leiningen Versus the Ants? Is that still required reading in high school? The short story by Carl Stephenson? If we survive these vicious, amoral and immoral, poisonous, fascist, right-wing red ants we will be eaten to the bone after having fallen through a ring of fire.
Slight correction; Carlson's goal is ONLY to make lot of money for himself; I doubt he cares how. He'd do the same for Stalin or Hitler if it made him money.